Heat-distributing means



Sept. 11, 1928.

E. DAVIS HEAT DISTRIBUTING MEANS Filed July 5, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. M

ATTORNEYS Sept..ll, 1928.

E. DAVIS HEAT DISTRIBUTING MEANS Filed July 5, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 i i A INVENTQR.

ATTORNEYS movable toward an Patented Sept. 11, 1928.,

v UNITED STATES 1,683,607 PATENT, OFFICE.-

inRNEs'r Davis, or sY Acu-sn, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROSPERITY .coMrAnY me, or SYRACUSE, New YORK,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

HEAT-DISTRIBUTING MEANS.

Application filed July 3,

This invention relates to ironing'elements,

having means for heating them as a burner or other heater where the heat is necessarily localized in spots, andhas for its object a 5 particularly, simpleand efiicient means for e .like characters represent corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevationof a pressing machine provided with my invention.

Figure 2 is anenlarged fragmentary transverse sectional view through the head of the machine, or an enlarged sectional view on line 2-2, Figure 3.

Figure 3 is a plan view, partly broken away of the head, I

Figure 4 is a sectional view on line 4-4, Figure 3. l,

V his .invention comprises, generally, an ironing element formed with an ironin face,

- and means for distributing the heat su stantiall equally throu hout the ironing face.

. Mg invention is h ere illustrated asembodied n an ironing element having a burner or heater for heating said element, and the an element is formed with a chamber overlying the former chamber in which the burners are located, the chambers being separated by a.

metal partition. Obviously in ironing elements having such burners, the heat is localized or the ironing face will be hot in spots.

The means for distributing the heat throughout the ironing face is here shown as a body of metal wool substantially filling the chamber, which overlies the ironing face,

said metal wool being of a metal, as copper,

having a greater heat conductivity than the metal of the ironing element.

The ironing element is 'here shown as'the head 1, of a pressin machine which head is d from the buck 2 suit- 1926. Serial No. 120,362.

ably mounted upon the frame of the machine, the head 1 being mounted on a yoke or lever 4 pivoted between its ends to a stand: ard 5 rising from the frame 3.

The headis here shown as formed with a chamber 6 over-lying its ironing face 7 and .with a second chamber 8 above the chamber '6, the chambers being separated by a horizontal metal partition 9. The'chamber 8 is formed with suitable air holes 11 for the escape of the products of combustion and also for the inlet of air to support the corn bustion at the burners.

The burners as here illustrated are a series of plpes 12, located in the chamber 8 and having jet or burner openings 13, these pipes 12 being connected to a. main feedpipe or conduit 14 formed in the buck. The passage 14 1s connected to a suitable source of supply through a pipe 15. and coupling 16. The partition 9 isformed with suitable posts or pro]eotions 17 on opposite sides thereof and the lower wall of the chamber'6 is likewise formed with upward projections 18, all for facilitating the distribution of the heat.

19 is the body of metal wool packed in the chamber 6, this wool as before stated'being copper shavings or copper wool. Owin to the metal'wool having a greater heat con uctivity'than the metal of the head, which is usually cast iron the heat from the burners 12 is evenly distributed throughout the ironin face 7.

IVhatI claim is: v 1. In an ironing element the combination of a body havingan ironing face, heating means wlthin the body and means for distributin the heat throughout the ironing face inc uding a bod of metal wool having greater heat conductlvity than'the metal of the body.

2. In an ironing instrument the combina tion of a body having an ironing face, 'a chamber overlying the ironing face and a heating chamber overlyin the former chamber and se arated from t e former chamber by a partition wall, the former chamber having a body of metal wool filling the same and engaglng all the wallsof said chamber and said partition wall, the body of metal wool having greater heat conductivity than the metal of the body.

3. an ironing element, the combination of a body having an ironing face, a chamber overlying the ironing face, a heating .cham- 11 her overlying the former chamber and having a burner therein and a body of metal wool in the former chamber and separated therefrom by a partition wall, the body of metal wool having a greater heat conductivity than the metal of the ironing element.

4. A pressing machine comprising a buck and a head movable toward and from the buck, the head comprising an ironing or pressing element, the head being formed with a chamber overlying its ironing face and a heating chamber overlying the former chamber and separated therefrom by a par- ERNEST DAVIS. 

